Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 30

Then they went away again, and the king said to the lion: ‘You have lied to me, they walk just like men.’

Who acts: peas, king, You · What happens: go away, say, lie, walk · To what, where: lion, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, king, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 lion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lion	det
13	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 lied	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 lied	punct
16	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 lied	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lied	aux
18	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lied	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walk	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walk	nsubj
23	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lied	conj
24	just	just	ADV	_	26 men	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 men	case
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 walk	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	peas = pea		then; again	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the king	the lion			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient
3	lie	present · perfect	You	me			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk	present	peas = pea			like men	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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